Profile

Role and Responsibilities

Peter Reid is a Professor of
Librarianship and Head of Department of Information Management. He is also a
former President of the Chartered Institute
of Library and Information Professional Scotland He is responsible for the
academic direction of the Information Management discipline within the
University. He leads the Managing Library Services module to students on MSc
Information and Library Studies. He is
an active researcher in the fields of library history and historical
bibliography as well as local studies librarianship. He has taught at Robert Gordon University
since 1998.

Research Interests

Historical bibliography: particularly the history of libraries, focusing on the history of the country house / private library and the (historical) book collecting of individuals and families.

Local studies / local history collections within libraries: their scope, purpose, uniqueness and contribution to local, regional and national identity and collective or cultural memory.

Management and quality of public libraries; he has recently led the
review and revision of the Public Library Quality Improvement Matrix which
is used to measure the quality of Scottish public libraries on behalf of
the Scottish Library and
Information Council.

Digital developments in (library) heritage provision: examining utilization of online technologies to bring together virtual representations of the past (including e-genealogy and the "ancestral cultural tourist).

Research Supervision

And he has supervised on the research projects such as: (i) The role of evidence-based decision and information literacy in the National Health Service (D. Inf. Science) (ii) User interaction with sources of and services for e-genealogy in the UK (funded by Robert Gordon University Research Development Initiative) (iii) Purpose and scope of local studies collections in academic libraries in the UK (funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council)

Peter also supervised the research project, 'Within their sphere': women correspondents to the Aberdeen Free Press and Daily Journal 1900-1918' (completed 2004).

Publications

REID, Peter H. and MOLLOY, Margaret. Church and State: politics, religion and
censorship in the library service of Co. Mayo.
Library and Information History, June
2013.

REID, Peter H. “It is ridiculous that the Borough Librarian
of Croydon should decide the policy of the Scottish Education Department”: the
establishment of Scotland’s second library school. Library
and Information History. Volume 28(4), 2012, pp. 257-271.

SKED, Katrina and REID, Peter
H. The people behind the philanthropy: an investigation into the lives and
motivations of library philanthropists in Scotland between 1800 and 1914.
Library History, 24(1), March 2008, pp.49-64.

REID, Peter H. and MACAFEE,
Caroline. The philosophy of local studies in the interactive age. Journal of
Librarianship and Information Science, 39(3) Sept 2007, pp.126-142.

REID, Peter H. Information is
the currency of democracy. Keynote address at Scottish Confederation of
University and Research Libraries / National Library of Scotland 5th Annual
E-Books Conference, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 14th October 2005.

NOLAN, Marie E. and REID,
Peter H. Pride and Glory: Aberdeen Public Library during the Second World War.
Library History, 21(1), March 2005, pp.9-28.

JOHNSON, I.M., NEWTON, R., and
REID, P.H. Management and development of e-reference services: some
implications for education and training of library staff. in: City development
and library services – proceedings of the second Shanghai International Library
Forum, October 12-15 2004, Shanghai, China. 2004. Shanghai, China: Shanghai
Scientific and Technological Literature. pp. 166-174.